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The Right Reverend Ambrose
Walter Marcus Weekes
Of your charity, pray for the happy repose of the soul of The Right Reverend Ambrose Walter Marcus Weekes, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, who died the day before his 93rd birthday on 24 April. Bishop Weeks died at home at the Charterhouse in London. He was consecrated Bishop of Gibraltar in 1977 at the Royal Navy Chapel in Greenwich, and was ordained priest in 1943 at Rochester Cathedral in Kent, the same cathedral in which he had once been a choirboy. He was, therefore, thirty-five years a bishop and nearly sixty-nine years a priest. In addition to many years as a Chaplain in the Royal Navy, he finished by being Chaplain of the Fleet, and was subsequently Dean of Gibraltar Cathedral, and then Suffragan Bishop of Gibraltar. In retirement, he served congregations in Tangiers, Montreux, Switzerland, and his beloved All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street, in London, where he had been an honorary assistant for many years. Bishop Weekes ordained Father Swain to the priesthood on 29 June 1988 at S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, one of only three men he ordained priest. His gentle, charming manner, deep devotion to Our Lord and the Sacraments, great personal dignity and transparent goodness will be much missed by many. Ecce sacerdos magnus qui in diebus suis placuit Deo. ............................................................................................
This Month in Pascha Nostrum
In past years, I have included elaborate theological and ecclesiological justifications for asking all of you to make the Holy Week journey with us. This year, I have decided to “go simple”. Will each one of you commit to attending Mass on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and Easter Day? God is here, your fellow parishioners are here, the clergy have prepared, the servers have prepared, your friends and fellow parishioners have decorated. We need to see you. So, please, just come! People never regret this time they have given to God. More >
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